Stuck On Stupid

When General Russel Honore uttered this now famous adage, his frustration with the press was well founded. Yet, for a civilized society to endure the prerequisite of a vigorous, skeptical, objective and investigative press is essential. The certainty of failure in the mainstream press to operate by those principles is one of the few things that IS believable from their reporting. The skill in asking and framing the optimum questions is at the root of insightful inquiry. Reporters in the corporate media environment are employed and advance by their usefulness in serving the interests of their publisher masters. The media moguls aspire to be the barons of the controlled culture. As gatekeepers, they are an integral part of the master global plan for political integration and cultural assimilation. On occasion, even inept reporters severely lacking the knack of germane analysis can prick the thick skin of the enforcers for the all-inclusive empire. Those who view themselves as part of the investigative alternative media understand that they need not apply for career consideration with the propaganda machine. The journalism profession seldom holds true to the - who, what, when, where, why - of news reporting. The editorial objectives of an employer are implied prisms of the storyteller. All too often reporters become the raconteur for a lying transnational conglomerate with distinct despotic motives. Even so, with total and complete creative and editorial freedom, the practitioner of linguistic persuasion is often less concerned with facts and more enthralled with influence. News reporting has been reduced to magic act slight of hand entertainment. Non-mainstream correspondents have not been automatically inoculated with a vaccine that prevents stupid behavior. They suffer from the same human condition and are not cured from the appetites of ego acclaim and fame. Notoriety as a rebel, does not necessarily make one a believable journalist or an effective revolutionary. Truth is still the ultimate benchmark by which to be judged. Intelligent political action requires rational and pragmatic tactics to achieve principled objectives. Paleoconservatives strive to safeguard those rare and few traditional value standards still practiced and worthy of preservation. In order to achieve a restoration of civilization, the natural process of avant-garde revolutionary decay needs to be destroyed by a healthy reactionary revolt. Make no mistake about the stakes, the cultural war is real and the winning side will not take prisoners. The unqualified moral, fiscal and institutional bankruptcy of our social and political system should be crystal clear to any intelligent observer. Redress of grievances and petitions for relief are as useful as a sun lamp in the heat of the noon desert. The system is irrevocably broken and no constitutional modification is possible to restore the essence of the 1776 American Revolution. The quack political physicians only offer a slow and painful bleeding treatment for a long-suffering and dying nation. The public endures because they are “stuck on stupid” autopilot. You know instinctively in your heart that this is the case. So what do you do at this point in history? http://batr.org/view/092605.html ----------------- As good as Sartre’s article is it fails to grasp the enormity of the problem. As I stated in my opening, the problem of being “Stuck on Stupid” is really one affecting democracy where-ever it is found. Diogenes

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